The term Pareidolia describes the tendency of human perception to find meaning in incidental structures and to seek patterns in random data - for
example images of animals or faces in clouds.
Not exact matches
This little novel tells
of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary
animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms
of which our natural
examples are but faint
images.
In the initial set
of experiments, the
animals were presented with a pair
of images — for
example a star and a ball — and could freely chose to look at one
image or the other, with their choice measured by their eye movement.
A common
example is the now - ubiquitous hotel - bathroom notice invoking
images of ocean
animals or pastoral scenery in an effort to convince guests to reuse their towels for the sake
of the environment.
For
example, it could be used to
image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords
of laboratory
animals.
For
example, she directs Gladstone's Center for In Vivo Imaging Research, which analyzes high - resolution and cutting - edge in vivo
images to monitor molecular changes in the brains
of live
animals over time.
I'm sorry to have to show you such a graphic
image, but Magoo is a prime
example of the cruelties
animals endure when they're left with no shelter!
In 2010 art historian Jean - Pierre Criqui wrote about Fritsch's depictions
of animals: «The way the artist uses them, but also the situations in which she places them, gives them ambiguous powers at the intersection
of several tendencies: humanity's ancestral fears and superstitions, as expressed, for
example, in tales and legends; the intensities
of totemic thought and
of its
images; and the uncanny and Freudian dream study.»
Her most recent mixed media works for
example start with black and white photographic
images of potatoes which De Jong transforms into landscapes,
animals or monsters, which have become so characteristic to her practice.
Examples of this are patchwork compositions
of aerial
images showing oil pumps in Denver or the feedlots in Texas that are used to intensify
animal farming by speeding up the life process
of cows.